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Helped break the story for the "new york times." hes also a cnn political analyst and he joins us now via skype. michael, im glad you could join us this evening. your colleague, michael smith landed an impromptu interview with the president today and the big headline, he believe the special counsel will treat his fairly in the russia investigation. >> yeah, no, thats right. it was about a half hour interview and totally impromptu and down at the presidents golf club in west palm beach, florida. ...

You know, patting himself on the back. hes bored at mar-a-lago when the suppress swirling outside there, and hes been very angry at the "washington post" the last months, in fact all of 2017, the post investigative journalists have been stunning. he tends to be more favoritable oodly to the "new york times" once in a while, but my takeaway from whats important here is hes obsessed with mueller. here it is on the holiday, he keeps trying to say i didnt collude, i didnt collude over and over again...

Talking with the senator. here is lbj talking to an appoint of the civil rights legislation. >> the best leaders at the time for both of our states folding a session. they were great men who merely destroyed america. i dont ever want a history book to say that about me. >> reporter: its so fascinating because there are tapes of lbj being racist and yet he also pushed through the great civil rights legislation of that era. >> yeah. he was very fast that way, i guess you could say. he did, a lot o...

Though? down double digits since the 100 days mark. >> even republicans hate all this losing, and when youve got a guy who promised so much winning, who all of a sudden is shooting himself in the foot. i mean, his numbers arent down because democrats are going after him. democrats have never been with him. his numbers are down because of all the self-inflicted political carnage, to borrow a word from his own inaugural address, that he is inflicting upon himself and the people around him. >> rick...

People ahead of you in the line. >> on the question of pre-existing conditions, fred upton and others who were nos and moved over to yes said they changed their vote because adding money to the high risk pool would take care of people with pre-existing conditions. the $8 billion. weve seen high risk pools before, before obamacare, they were around in 35 states. do you believe that money added to the high risk pools is enough to cover are people with pre-existing conditions? >> not even close. $8...

Is this adminiration looking to pass smart legislation or is this abouting off the box in the first 100 days? >> i think theres concerns about the optics here. the big task at hand is to keep the government open and theres a lot of people in washington worried about suddenly adding more to the to do list when the government could shut down on friday. >> shawn, how much pressure is the administration under right now? >> they are under pressure to show that they can actually accomplish something. ...

Catholici catholicism. this pope says this can change. its abouting to me hes saying, well, just for remote areas or maybe if you happen to be married already, if youre already a priest, you cant be married. those distinctions dont make sense. either you can have married priests or you cant. im not sure that maybe opening the door is a little is a point. >> its an idea hes perhaps even waiting for feedback, because there cant be an expectation that there are a whole lot more protestant married, ...

With the medicaid expansion. its only expanded out a couple more years, thats unacceptable. republican senators talking about the planned parenthood aspect being unacceptable. thats more sort of on the left, on the right in the house. you have folks saying, this is too much like obamacare. this keeps too many of the provisions from obamacare. people on the left and right within your party who are opposed to this objections, how do you reconcile that? >> i think the first step is not reconcile, b...

Shore up our presence in this part of the world, the indonesia pacific area of the world, and im really glad that secretary mattis in his first trip overseas after being abouting secretary went to japan and south korea to point out how important it is for our allies and us to be working together for stability and our national security in this part of the world. . >> senator, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. coming up, operating out of an undisclosed bunker-like complex in washing...

He told us do you go the campaign season that he wanted a muslim ban. then it morphed into this order. rudy giuliani explained that he had asked legal experts how to accomplish a muslim ban through kind of slightly more deevious means. and you know, thats just not okay -- i mean its worse than not okay. its not constitutional. >> you think its plainly unconstitutional? >> yeah, and i think that its going to be clear as its been clear to every judge thats looked at it so far that this should at l...